Whether you’re managing a few firewalls or a few hundred, Sophos Firewall Manager, includes everything you need:

Comprehensive Centralized Management

Manage all Firewall policies and configuration from a single console

Ensure uniform policy implementation across sites

Reuse configuration templates to streamline setup of new firewalls

Insightful Monitoring

At-a-glance device and network health indicators

Multiple view options with customizable warning thresholds

Customizable threshold-based alert notifications

Extensive Administrative controls

Flexible grouping of devices by region, model, or other parameters

Role-based administration to delegate control by job function

Change control & logging to track and roll back changes

Flexible Deployment Options

Available as Hardware, Software, or Virtual appliance

Integration with iView to sync admin users and devices

Features:

Comprehensive Centralized Management

Complete firewall management of all your devices
Centrally manage firewall policies and configuration for all your security features for network protection, Application filtering, Web filtering, IPS, VPN, Email, and more. And we make it easy by ensuring the controls and user interface are consistent between Sophos Firewall Manager and the on-box management console.

Streamline setup of new devices Simply point your new firewalls at SFM - a convenient wizard guides you through the device enrolment, compatibility checks, and device synchronization in just a few clicks.

Push, pull or replicate policies You can push, pull or replicate policies amongst your various firewalls or have new devices inherit policies automatically when they come online.

Template-based configuration
Create re-usable configuration templates that help you save time and effort setting up a new device or customer. You can create a new template, clone or copy an existing template or create one from an existing device configuration. For example, apply a branch office template to new branch offices easily or create special templates focused on particular needs like an education vertical.

Insightful monitoring

Device health monitor
Monitor the health of your managed devices including their security, resources, availability, and licensing status all from the central dashboard.

Utilize a variety of views to focus on just what’s important and adjust threshold values for monitoring parameters based on your specific business needs.

Alerts
You can configure alerts to get notifications on a broad range of events including subscription expiry, gateway status change, excessive disk usage, ATP events, IPS and virus threat counts, unhealthy surfing, and much more. Event thresholds are completely customizable, ensuring you only get alerted when it’s important.

Extensive Administrative control

Intelligent grouping of devices
Conveniently group devices by model, firmware, country, device name and more for quick and easy action, management, and monitoring.

Role-based Administration
Maintain centralized control over what each administrator can do through Sophos Firewall Manager’s role-based administration. Delegate role-based access to different members of your IT staff based on their security functions such as VPN admin, App and Web Security admin, IPS admin. And in doing so, limit their access to other functions that are not related to their job roles or keep it read-only.

Change Control & Logging
We’ve made change control easy. View details of configuration changes, compare different versions of configurations and roll back configuration changes to discard unwanted changes. Sophos Firewall Manager offers you a complete audit trail of policy and device changes to help with compliance management.

Integration with the new Sophos iView
Sophos Firewall Manager integrates easily with the new Sophos iView enabling auto-provisioning of managed devices and automatic synchronization of administrators in the new Sophos iView.

Specifications:

Hardware Technical Specifications

SFM Hardware Models

SFM200

SFM300

SFM400

Recommended number of managed devices*

30

150

300

Physical Interfaces

Ethernet interfaces

6

6

6

Console ports

1 x RJ-45

1 x RJ-45

1 x RJ-45

USB ports

2 x USB 3.0

2 x USB 3.0

2 x USB 3.0

Physical specifications

Dimensions (Width x Depth x Height)

438 x 292 x 44mm|17.24 x 11.5 x 1.75 inches

Weight

4.8 kg / 10.58 lbs (unpacked)|6.8 kg / 14.99 lbs (packed)

Environment

Power consumption

21W / 72 BTU/h (idle)
31W / 106 BTU/h (full load)

23W / 79 BTU/h (idle)
39W / 133 BTU/h (full load)

31W / 106 BTU/h (idle)
54W / 184 BTU/h (full load)

Operating temperature

0~40°C (operating)|-20 to +70°C (storage)

Humidity

0~90%, non-condensing

Product certifications

CB, CE, FCC Class A, IC, VCCI, RCM, UL, CCC

* These are guidelines only. The exact capacity will depend on a variety of factors including network activity, traffic volume, number of users, and other metrics.

Software and Virtual Technical Specifications

Virtual and Software deployments of SFM are licensed based on the number of devices managed and a no-charge
evaluation license is available for managing up to 5 firewall devices.